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The Perfect Fragrance for Wimbledon Will Have You Smelling Like... Tennis Balls
So, you've put on your all-white tennis clobber and slipped into your trainers. Your gym bag has all the bits to rehydrate you and wick away sweat while pausing between sets. Your racket bag is flung over your shoulder, and a tube of tennis balls are in your hands. You crack the lid, take a sniff of that rubbery yet fuzzy smell and get into focus. Game on, you think, as you throw the ball into the air.
Wimbledon is well underway and tennis fever is spreading fast. And amongst those tuning in are D.S & Durga founders', David and Kavi Moltz. Their love of bat and ball is so strong that they've created an olfactory ode to the sport: the Crush Balls fragrance.
"Kavi and I are very bad aspiring tennis players," says David in the product's press release. "We relish the feeling of getting out on a court and crushing tennis balls. So simple. So satisfying. I love how this game of hitting a ball over a net with a racquet is really an entire culture. A global sensation of people chasing the feeling of that crisp crush. For me a tennis scent has to be green, clean, fresh and 'sporty.'"£155.00 at spacenk
This limited edition perfume consists of green grass and rosamin top notes, elements of hedge flowers and white cotton in the middle, and the smell of hard court at its base. The combination is green and invigorating, and unsurprisingly, will conjure up thoughts of tennis balls zooming across a court.
It's not the first time D.S & Durga have looked to esoteric inspiration points – in fact, that's kind of what they excel at. Mississippi Medicine used a little-known Mississippian cult called 'Southeastern Ceremonial Complex', that dates back to the 1200s, as its starting point. Their most popular fragrance, Cowboy Grass, nods to the Wild West. And I think you can guess what their namesake fragrance of the divisive herb coriander smells like.
To give an indication of how tennis-y this scent is (some Smell-O-Vision would be handy right now) Wimbledon have even stocked it on-site for you to spritz and sniff. Worth a pitstop in between games, we say.
Crush Balls is also available online at Space N.K and the D.S & Durga website.
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